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Grey side / Lite side

harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Some token manufacturer was selling on both sides of the border.

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice catch.
  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    American Banknote Company and it's predecessors also did this with vignettes on banknotes. Often vignettes used had no bearing on the region in which they were re-used. For example, a leopard on a Banco de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) note.

    The leopard was engraved much earlier either for stock or for a particular issue back then, and reused when a custom vignette wasn't wanted or paid for by the contracting bank.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pairing. Quite interesting. I like the Indiana piece, despite the heavy wear. It has character, somehow. I wonder if it was somebody's pocket piece for a while.

    Are those aluminum, or silver?

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They appear to be aluminum. Offhand, the only other lightweight metal I have seen in a numismatic item is a magnesium alloy. And that was a medal.
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